Stories
- Article
The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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How music opens the doors of memory and the mind
People living with dementia can often still listen, perform or move to music. What does this tell us about how memories are formed?
Catalogue
- Books
Curating human remains : caring for the dead in the United Kingdom / edited by Myra Giesen.
Date: 2013- Books
Regarding the dead : human remains in the British Museum / edited by Alexandra Fletcher, Daniel Antoine and J. D. Hill.
Date: [2014]- Books
- Online
Report on the human and animal remains found at Halling, Kent / by Arthur Keith.
Keith, Arthur, Sir, 1866-1955.Date: 1914- Archives and manuscripts
Explorers Cuttings Book 4
The Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: 1924 - 1930Reference: WF/M/GB/35/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Hidden histories of the dead : disputed bodies in modern British medical research / Elizabeth T. Hurren.
Hurren, Elizabeth T.Date: 2021